The march today. GLTA!Hundreds of people march against the Canadian mining company Golf Quest in San Juan de la Maguana Agricultural organizations, parishioners of the different churches and personalities participated October 29, 2022 Menu Greenbelly.net To look for Empresas manejadas por Alexis Medina Snchez operaban como un verdadero pulpo St. John's News Hundreds of people march against the Canadian mining company Golf Quest in San Juan de la Maguana Agricultural organizations, parishioners of the different churches and personalities participated October 29, 2022 By ARMANDO PASCUAL MADE SAN JUAN DE LA MAGUANA.- Hundreds of people marched this Saturday morning against the Gold Quest mining company and its purpose of exploiting the Los Romero gold mine, a community located in the southern part of the Central mountain range, belonging to this province, and where the San Juan River and several of its most important tributaries are born. As they marched, the crowd shouted, "Water yes, gold no"! and the well-known piece written and performed by Manuel Jimnez against mining exploitation was also heard, The walk began at 10:15 in the morning, from the Association of Agricultural Producers of San Juan, in front of the Western Regional University Center (CURO), of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), and immediately took the Avenida Independencia to the west, when arriving at Anacaona Avenue, it turned north, and then at the roundabout, turned left, turned onto Snchez Street and on its way ended up in the Park that bears the same name. Then the crowd gathered in front of a platform, from which they addressed the leading marchers of the United Southwest movement for Water and Life, legislators, representatives of agricultural organizations and professional associations and guilds, as well as personalities Among those who addressed the attendees in brief speeches was the senator from the San Juan province, Flix Bautista, who promised to submit a bill to the Senate of the Republic that prohibits mining exploitation in that part of the Central mountain range, that includes the community of Los Romero. The agricultural producer Manuel Matos also spoke, representing the Southwest movement for Water and Life, an evangelical pastor and a priest, condemning the purpose and insistence of the Gold Quest to exploit gold, an activity that would contaminate the water and in general the environment of the entire region, in particular the San Juan Valley and the entire population, whose aqueducts depend on the waters of the San Juan River and its tributaries. The presentation and conduction from stage was in charge of the journalist and announcer, Vctor Ramn Pia Cmpora (Vicky Pia). A 911 unit, as well as Preventive Police units were in the surroundings of the march. The activity ended at 11:48 in the morning, without incident.